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Tape 32 .4/33.2
HELENA CARTWRIGHT CARLSON
MELVIN CARLSON
Helena: Big Meadow, Troy; b. 1899
school teacher, housewife (Mrs. Ed Carlson)
Melvin: Troy; b.1906
woodsworker, farmer. 2 hours
minute page
Side A
00 Packsack Dick Farrdl; jewelry salesman; Camp 7 shacks for
married couples (1927). Practical jokes by lumberjacks;
getting even for being short-sheeted. 4 wives and a flunkie
in camps; going shopping in Bovill.
1° Bear meat; Helena fools her husband Ed; West Virginia fellas
think bear meat will be a treat; John Pickard displayed
butchered bear in downtown window (1914), women fainted
at' the resemblance to a human.
15 No wild game in mess hall but lots of fish; Mrs. Sturg ill,
the boss' wife at Camp 7; Ed Welsh at Camp 1; Ed Cole
described. Camp 35; Bill Zimmerman and Le roy/ Harris
try to fill their bunkhouse before Christmas vacation and
other pranks; some ways to fill the time.
24 Forest fire at Camp 1; smoke too thick to drive through;
location of camp; the crazy car with the wheels aimed out.
A near accident between Ed s car and the shay; women
rode the skid logs into camp.
Side B ,
on cxr DrowrT)chipmunk found in messhall soup; chipmunk and kitten
on waxed cabin floor. Timbering in the snow; tree with bear
inside; bears around camps; cruel trick on one bear.
05 Lumberjacks on their time off in Spokane; coming back broke;
income tax problems. Gingerbread and ice cream makes Ed
sick; diarrha for entire eamp slows down the work; MElvin
starts working under age for big money, $2.50 a day; gyppo
wages; a profitable three day job.
16 TEamsters: one fella with a boil trusts a friend; Old man
Furgeson's home remedy, a copper bracelet and a potato
in his hip pocket; mother used bread, dipped in milk to
clear infection; tooth ache remedy, carbolic acid; beet poltis;
oil of peppermint or winter green or cloves for tooth ache;
Mother Crows and Casteroil for diarrha.
25 Helena's family history; Mayflower ancestors; Melvin's
parents came to America with family and meet. Playing a
joke on Dad with limberger cheese.

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Tape 32 .4/33.2
HELENA CARTWRIGHT CARLSON
MELVIN CARLSON
Helena: Big Meadow, Troy; b. 1899
school teacher, housewife (Mrs. Ed Carlson)
Melvin: Troy; b.1906
woodsworker, farmer. 2 hours
minute page
Side A
00 Packsack Dick Farrdl; jewelry salesman; Camp 7 shacks for
married couples (1927). Practical jokes by lumberjacks;
getting even for being short-sheeted. 4 wives and a flunkie
in camps; going shopping in Bovill.
1° Bear meat; Helena fools her husband Ed; West Virginia fellas
think bear meat will be a treat; John Pickard displayed
butchered bear in downtown window (1914), women fainted
at' the resemblance to a human.
15 No wild game in mess hall but lots of fish; Mrs. Sturg ill,
the boss' wife at Camp 7; Ed Welsh at Camp 1; Ed Cole
described. Camp 35; Bill Zimmerman and Le roy/ Harris
try to fill their bunkhouse before Christmas vacation and
other pranks; some ways to fill the time.
24 Forest fire at Camp 1; smoke too thick to drive through;
location of camp; the crazy car with the wheels aimed out.
A near accident between Ed s car and the shay; women
rode the skid logs into camp.
Side B ,
on cxr DrowrT)chipmunk found in messhall soup; chipmunk and kitten
on waxed cabin floor. Timbering in the snow; tree with bear
inside; bears around camps; cruel trick on one bear.
05 Lumberjacks on their time off in Spokane; coming back broke;
income tax problems. Gingerbread and ice cream makes Ed
sick; diarrha for entire eamp slows down the work; MElvin
starts working under age for big money, $2.50 a day; gyppo
wages; a profitable three day job.
16 TEamsters: one fella with a boil trusts a friend; Old man
Furgeson's home remedy, a copper bracelet and a potato
in his hip pocket; mother used bread, dipped in milk to
clear infection; tooth ache remedy, carbolic acid; beet poltis;
oil of peppermint or winter green or cloves for tooth ache;
Mother Crows and Casteroil for diarrha.
25 Helena's family history; Mayflower ancestors; Melvin's
parents came to America with family and meet. Playing a
joke on Dad with limberger cheese.